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^^ You sir, have an addiction. (I wish I could afford the same problem
) Its all I can do to save for an optic and free float rail.
Do you prefer the FSB co witness with your Aimpoints, or no witness with the flip ups?
I have to warn you, the disease is highly contagious.
I only have one Aimpoint, a CompM2 that I moved to another rifle. The ones on the Stags are actually Primary Arms M3 and M4 red dot/multi-reticule optics and a Vortex Strikefire. I just couldn't put out $500-1000 for optics for every rifle in the safe. I splurged with the Aimpoint, five Eotechs and an ACOG with Docter. After that, I decided I needed to go cheaper if I wanted an optic on every rifle.
For the money, it's hard to beat the PAs. They hold zero well, run reliably and function as well as I need them to. Are they Aimpoint/Eotech quality? Probably not, but they feel to me like 80% for 10% of the price. Like my Stags, I do not feel any reluctance to pick them up in an emergency versus rooting around for the "best" gun/optic.
I personally really prefer the flip-ups, as much for aesthetic reasons as for function. These two Stags and a Bushmaster are the only rifles I have that actually have FSPs. The FSP does not particularly bother me when looking through the optics, but you can see them and I prefer not to. Besides, chicks dig folding sights. With the mounts I run, I am using lower 1/3 co-witness for the most part. The only exceptions are for my POFs, which I run low risers which give me an absolute co-witness. I would prefer lower 1/3, but with the high rails on the POFs the low riser gives me a more conventional head position with my normal cheekweld. I suppose I could run micro sights, but the Troys which I like best for micro sights will probably run me another $200 for each POF. Since I already had sights, I really didn't want to put out more money just to get lower sights. I like the lower 1/3 because if I need to line up I can move my head and get a co-witness, but if I am running with BUIS up it reduces clutter in my field of view.
By the way, the Sig red dot is another great deal for a budget optic that works great - I got 7 of them for $100 apiece from a local gun store that had them on special. They are parallax free and come with killflashes ($20 more from PA - I have four of their micro red dots and they run $180ish with killflash and AR medium height riser). I run them without risers on some non-ARs like my Sig556, FS2000 and PS90, but you can get decent risers for less than $10 (I like the UTGs).